My volumes fades as I record long, sustained notes. HELP.

[Wind's Conductor]

When I'm recording, if I sing mantaining a note or hold a key, the volume at the beginning is fine, then after a second it suddenly drops to a third of its volume. I usually play piano pieces with tons of pedal, and it happens the same: if all the piece has tons of echo and sustained pedal, it all drops dow. I have to produce sudden, fast notes to be recorded on a normal volume; any sound that goes on and on will have its volume pushed down.

I'm using my laptop's in-built microphone, but I once tried with a real one and it happened all the same.

This is a pain, since I like using long-lasting sounds and reverb and stuff. Help plz, what could it be?

[steve]

It's a sound card setting.
Go into your sound card settings and disable all effects and enhancements - search thoroughly, some of them may be well hidden.
The main culprit may be called something like "Noise Reduction" or "Echo Cancellation", but turn off all effects and enhancements.

[kozikowski]

Windows Enhanced Sound
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 79&start=0

Windows comes out of the box these days set for video and audio conferencing, pretty much the exact opposite of the settings you need for theatrical recording.

Koz